Author of this blog post, sorry but I cannot trust in someone that calls parasites and psychopats people that understand someone that he does not.

As a previous poster said... You just seems insecure at something totally new, which you simply cannot understand, that is taking over and probably threatening your fields of knowledge. I just see lack of experience speaking here.

I don't understand why you think it is an abomination - it serves the smartphone purpose quite well IMO.

For myself I prefer the desktop-like linux experience of the OpenPandora. New orders are shipped with NO WAITING from https://www.dragonbox.de/en/ The emulators are top-notch and webbrowsing is very good.

If you like linux you will love the OpenPandora.

I have two complaints with Android.

First, the user is not given root access. You can root your phone, but I don't like systems that are designed to be locked down.

Second, it's based on Java. I've heard many people swear that just-in-time (JIT) compiled bytecode is just as fast as natively compiled code. That hasn't been my experience actually using it. For example, MAME4Droid has obvious lag when the garbage collector runs. (There is C/C++ on Android, but it compiles to bytecode rather than a native binary.) Because users are not given root access, all apps are bytecode rather than native binaries.

I am seriously considering an Open Pandora. I probably will wait a few years to see if the price comes down or the product survives. (Update: The price of the 1GHz version just decreased by $90, from $699 to $609.)

You do indeed sound like a disgruntled coward. Your words are full of anger and vindictiveness, as though some vet actually came to your home and kicked you in the nuts. Maybe we should have sat on the sidelines and waited for cowards like you or your brothers, sisters, friends to be drafted instead. We go so that no one else is forced to. Your ungrateful and I bet your borderline sociopathic

Im relieved to see that this blog is mainly just the same ass holes going back and forth sucking each other off about there isolated ideals, thanks for confirming that there are a few ungrateful cowards like you out there

If you are working somewhere and getting paid for it, you should try to answer all reasonable requests. However, there’s a point where you say no (i.e., work 10 hours a day for a long time). There’s a point where you walk away (i.e., your boss is an abusive jerk). There’s a point where you realize someone is clueless and not worth your time (i.e., they talk about design patterns or node.js, and have no real useful skills).

Another example is the Welfare State. It is extremely damaging. It is damaging to the people who are taxed to pay for it. It is damaging to the recipients, who get used to handouts rather than working. It’s like someone who feeds stray cats and wonders why there are so many cats hanging around.

Some pro-State troll might say “Taxes don’t drain productive workers. That money is returned to the economy.” It is returned to the economy, but it goes to insiders. If I had a rebate of all the taxes I’d ever paid, I could afford to start my own business with money left over.

I had an interesting interview recently. The main boss seemed to have good business sense in his nontechnical area. He was trying to make an Internet-based business, but had hired the wrong people and wasted a lot of money. My preliminary analysis was “Your existing code sucks. I’ll start over and make something better quickly.” He had a reasonable business plan. I’ve seen a lot of websites in his area, all of which sucked. Everyone thinks they have a brilliant revolutionary idea, but then hires an incompetent twit to execute.

It’s interesting to see the hostility to some of my comments! The hostility to the posts on node.js, Design Patterns, and TDD is an important point. They say “FSK doesn’t like these things because he is unqualified.” Actually, I noticed that stupid people hide behind bad ideas, because they let them hide their incompetence. It’s easier to spout buzzwords than deliver a working product.

well, a preview button would have helped … Anyway I did confirm that I wasn’t a spammer, so by definition it wasn’t spam.

Another example is the Welfare State. It is extremely damaging. It is damaging to the people who are taxed to pay for it. It is damaging to the recipients, who get used to handouts rather than working. It’s like someone who feeds stray cats and wonders why there are so many cats hanging around.

well, I’m not from USA but from Europe [Yeah, that land-mass which gave the world the Welfare State]. However, here we don’t think of the welfare state as damaging. In fact, the idea came about because of the destruction of WW1 and WW2 a lot of [good and bad] people had suddenly become “stray cats”. So the state had to intervene to help the people to help themselves. Otherwise WW3 would have happend, because everyone had weapons and believe me, no one was affraid anymore to use them!

Now – even after almost 70 years – this is still resounding in the culture and in the people. But it’s not easy to get help, you don’t extend your arm and open your palm. You have to go through heaps of paper to get help. This seems to be different in the US, where people seem to be much more “accomodating”. In Western Europe you can walk by the hobos on the street without getting a bad conscience [especially during the christmas season]. Simply because it was soley their decision to be on the street. And any time they want, they can get help to get a roof and a bed, but it’s not the “soft pillow” you describe. You have to do something to maintain it… And yes, we gladly pay taxes for it [even if it's an illusion and some/most/all of it goes into the pockets of shady politicians like Berlusconi and big companies] because that way we can all say: “We gave it at the office [or in our case state]“.
Of course, the American Culture is different, so you might not agree with this at
all. But that’s OK.

It’s interesting to see the hostility to some of my comments! The hostility to the posts on node.js, Design Patterns, and TDD is an important point. They say “FSK doesn’t like these things because he is unqualified.” Actually, I noticed that stupid people hide behind bad ideas, because they let them hide their incompetence. It’s easier to spout buzzwords than deliver a working product.

Well, in your schools they tell us that “computer science” was, is and always will be “science” and “software engineering” is likewise “engineering”. So, you have to approach any “new (or old, forgotten)” technology with reasonable doubt, but also with an open mind. So, there is a case of node.js, design pattern, TDD. But as with everything it needs to be properly applied and executed for it to work [of course, this translates into... it's never done and bits are missing!]. But it always helps knowing this because if you talk to people about this stuff and they don’t know the “scientific” way then you can instantly “retort” any criticism about qualtification.
[Of course, this doesn't work in the US. People there aren't so snobby and there are lots of self-taught execs, which don't know and never cared about "science" and "engineering", because "it is always in the way" and "no one got time for that".]

Actually, some spammers have updated their scripts to account for the growmap anti-spam plugin. It isn’t completely foolproof and I’m looking for something else.

In my experience, people who talk about node.js, design patterns, and TDD tend to be clueless, rather than people who really know what they’re doing. I’m pretty good at evaluating people’s ability.

Well, if you think you have the ability to evaluating other people’s programming capabilities. You should go into HR and start to write your exploits on dailywtf, or else it’ll be just another semi-useless skill.

Even though I’m great at evaluating technical ability, that doesn’t mean I’m able to get a job as a hiring manager or recruiter.

In fact, HR and headhunters are responsible for most of the problems plaguing technical hiring. They have promoted the idea that keyword screening is the best way to hire people. That enables technically illiterate people to screen resumes.

When resumes are filtered by keywords and not technical ability, that also favors liars. If you lie on your resume, you get more interviews. Those keywords are not relevant for the job, so it doesn’t matter.

Unless you’re a top programmer yourself, it’s very hard/impossible to tell the difference between a great programmer and a great liar. In a corrupt economy, the liars have a great advantage. They force the competent and honest people out of the market.

Another example is the Welfare State. It is extremely damaging. It is damaging to the people who are taxed to pay for it. It is damaging to the recipients, who get used to handouts rather than working. It’s like someone who feeds stray cats and wonders why there are so many cats hanging around.

Some pro-State troll might say “Taxes don’t drain productive workers. That money is returned to the economy.” It is returned to the economy, but it goes to insiders. If I had a rebate of all the taxes I’d ever paid, I could afford to start my own business with money left over.

well, I see two different things here. People who live of the welfare state are usually poor… furthermore they didn’t make the laws, they just living by them. And some of them quite successfully/abusive. But as I said, they didn’t make the rules. So, it’s not their fault if they found a way to exploit the system. In fact, I would applaud them for their intelligence, cunning and ingenuity even though if it is totally against the grain [of course, these "smart and clever exploiters" should not be confused with frauds and ruthless criminals. And of course, this is
only relevant if they managed not to get caught! If you want someone to blame, then blame those who allowed/allows it and don't do anything against it, even though they know full well what's happening.].

Now for “insiders”, the situation is different. They can make their own rules, so one might say they are above the law. Of course, in this case I agree there is not much you can do… Except keep up the “good work”, ranting about it all day long and stay on the track once a movement gains momentum [This worked before! In Tunisia, In Libya, In Egypt, In East Germany, In France, In Spain, In India and also in the US].